Cardiovascular Diseases: An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature
Authors: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES COMMITTEE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1979)

The Literature of Medicine1 July 1979Cardiovascular Diseases: An Annotated Bibliography of Recent LiteratureReferences to Journal Articles and Other PapersCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES COMMITTEECARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES COMMITTEESearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-91-1-137 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis bibliography includes references to 100 recently published journal papers and similar sources that represent important developments in the concept and practice of internal medicine. It has been compiled by the Cardiovascular Diseases Committee as a part of the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program V Syllabus.In preparing this bibliography, the committee reviewed MEDLINE†bibliographic printouts of journal articles published since the beginning of 1975 and also drew on sources in libraries of hospitals and other clinical institutions in the United States and Canada; thus, only papers in English are listed, and most are from American journals....Ischemic Heart Disease Valvular Heart Disease Congenital Heart Disease COARCTATION OF THE AORTA ELECTRICAL ABNORMALITIES AORTIC STENOSIS Pericardial Disease Myocardial Disease Infective Endocarditis Pulmonary Heart Disease Noninvasive Techniques: Echocardiography Electrophysiology Arterial Disease Hypertension Noncardiac Surgery in the Cardiac Patient Clinical Pharmacology1. BAILEYGRIFFITHROULEAUSTRAUSSPITT ILJHB. Thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging at rest and during exercise: comparative sensitivity to electrocardiography in coronary artery disease. Circulation. 1977;55:79-87. Clinical experience with exercise myocardial imaging. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. BERGERGOTTSCHALKZARET HAB. Dual radionuclide study of acute myocardial infarction. Comparison of thallium-201 and technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate imaging in man. Ann Intern Med. 1978;88:145-54. This study shows how thallium-201 and technetium-99m imaging are complementary in diagnosing acute myocardial infarction in humans. LinkGoogle Scholar3. BERTOLASITRONGERICCITELLIVILLAMAYORZUFFARDI CJMRE. Natural history of unstable angina with medical or surgical therapy. Chest 1976;70:596-605. Randomized clinical trail of medical and surgical treatment. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. BRUCEREROUENPETERSON RTD. Noninvasive predictors of sudden cardiac death in men with coronary heart disease: predictive value of maximal stress testing. Am J Cardiol. 1977;39:833-40. Analysis of factors other than ST-segment depression for predicting cardiac risk. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. CANNOMLEVYCOHEN DWL. The short- and long-term prognosis of patients with transmural and nontransmural myocardial infarction. Am J Med. 1976;61:452-8. The long-term prognosis for patients surviving transmural myocardial infarction is compared with that for patients surviving nontransmural myocardial infarctions. Patients with nontransmural myocardial infarction may carry a particularly guarded prognosis. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. CHALMERSPROUDFITFEINSTEINDIBONA TWAG. Symposium: the scientific uses and abuses of the clinical trial: treatment of chronic stable angina with saphenous vein bypass grafting: Randomized Veterans Administration Cooperative Study. Clin Res. 1978;26:229-44. Pro-and-con discussion on the merits of the Veterans Administration study and the concept of randomized clinical trials. Google Scholar7. CHATTERJEE K. Chronic congestive heart failure and vasodilator therapy. J Cont Educ Cardiol. 1978;13:17-29. Excellent summary of the status of vasodilator therapy. Google Scholar8. COPLEYMANTLEROGERSRUSSELLRACKLEY DJWRC. Improved outcome for prehospital cardiopulmonary collapse with resuscitation by bystanders. Circulation. 1977;56:901-5. Training laymen to initiate early basic life support can benefit the cardiopulmonary collapse victim. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. DEBAKEYLAWRIE MG. Aortocoronary-artery bypass. Assessment after 13 years. JAMA. 1978;239:837-9. Commentary on the state of the art as viewed by a surgical center. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar10. GINKSSUTTONOHLEATHAM WRWA. Long-term prognosis after acute anterior infarction with atrioventricular block. Br Heart J. 1977;39:186-9. Long-term permanent pacing is not recommended even in patients with transient complete heart block in the course of an anterior wall myocardial infarction. Reports of previous studies in the American literature have recommended permanent pacing for these patients. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. GORDONCASTELLIHJORTLANDKANNELDAWBER TWMWT. High density lipoprotein as a protective factor against coronary heart disease: the Framingham Study. Am J Med. 1977;62:707-14. There is increasing interest in the inverse association between high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and the development of coronary heart disease. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. HAMMERMEISTERDEROUENMURRAYDODGE KTJH. Effect of aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass grafting on death and sudden death: comparison of nonrandomized medically and surgically treated cohorts with comparable coronary disease and left ventricular function. Am J Cardiol. 1977;39:925-34. Comparison of survival and sudden death in nonrandomized matched patient groups. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar13. HEUPLERPROUDFITRAZAVISHIREYGREENSTREETSHELDON FWMERW. Ergonovine maleate provocative test for coronary arterial spasm. Am J Cardiol. 1978;41:631-40. Clinical trial of ergonovine and outline of technical aspects of the test. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. HILLSBRAUNWALD LE. Coronary-artery spasm. N Engl J Med. 1978;299:695-702. Good review of coronary artery spasm and its clinical implications. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar15. HULTGRENPFEIFERANGELLLIPTONBILISOLY HJWMJ. Unstable angina: comparison of medical and surgical management. Am J Cardiol. 1977;39:734-40. Nonrandomized Veterans Administration series of unstable angina with comparative results. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar16. JOHNSONSCANLONLOEBMORANPIFARREGUNNAR SPHJRR. Treatment of cardiogenic shock in myocardial infarction by intraaortic balloon counterpulsation therapy and surgery. Am J Med. 1977;62:687-92. The use of intra-aortic balloon pumping early after myocardial infarction when cardiogenic shock supervenes may save a number of patients who would otherwise die. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar17. LEVINEGOLDLEINBACHDAGGETTAUSTENBUCKLEY FHRWWM. Management of acute myocardial ischemia with intraaortic balloon pumping and coronary bypass surgery. Circulation. 1978;58 (suppl I):I-69-72. Clinical experience of intra-aortic balloon pumping in unstable angina. Google Scholar18. MCINTOSHGARCIA HJ. The first decade of aortocoronary bypass grafting, 1967-1977. Circulation. 1978;57:405-31. Comprehensive review emphasizing the negative aspects of widespread aortocoronary bypass surgery. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar19. MURPHYHULTGRENDETRETHOMSENTAKARO MHKJT, PARTICIPANTS OF THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION COOPERATIVE STUDY. Treatment of chronic stable angina: a preliminary report of survival data of the randomized Veterans Administration Cooperative Study. N Engl J Med. 1977;297:621-7. Controversial clinical report of a randomized trial of patients with stable angina pectoris. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar20. RUBERMANWEINBLATTGOLDBERGFRANKSHAPIRO WEJCS. Ventricular premature beats and mortality after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 1977;297:750-7. Men with previous myocardial infarction (1739) were monitored for ectopic activity for 1 h at a standard baseline examination and followed up to 4 years. Complex premature beats during monitoring were associated with a risk of sudden coronary death three times that for men without complex ventricular premature beats. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar21. SCHULZESTRAUSSPITT RHB. Sudden death in the year following myocardial infarction: relation to ventricular premature contractions in the late hospital phase and left ventricular ejection fraction. Am J Med. 1977;62:192-9. Complicated ventricular ectopy recorded on a 24-h ambulatory tape recorder and a resting radionuclide ejection fraction less than 0.40 were associated with a poor prognosis in patients who survived an acute myocardial infarction. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar22. SHEFFIELDREEVESBLACKBURN LTH. The exercise test in perspective. Circulation. 1977;55:681-3. Editorial. Editorial review of the expectations and limitations of exercise testing. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar23. WACKERSSOKOLESAMSON FEG. Value and limitations of thallium-201 scintigraphy in the acute phase of myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 1976;295:1-5. Excellent investigation describing uses and limitations of thallium-201 scintigraphy in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar24. WYMANLALKAHAMMERSMITHCANNOMGOLDREYER MDLDB. Multiple bolus technique for lidocaine administration during the first hours of an acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 1978;41:313-7. A dosage schedule of multiple bolus injections of lidocaine every 5 min, if ventricular extrasystoles are not controlled, up to 225 mg over 16 min provides adequate blood levels, produces no significant toxicity, and safely gives excellent results in patients with infarction irrespective of the presence of moderate congestive heart failure. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar25. DEVEREUXPERLOFFREICHEKJOSEPHSON RJNM. Mitral valve prolapse. Circulation. 1976;54:3-14. Current review of the entire spectrum of mitral valve prolapse including functional anatomy, clinical manifestations, major complications, associated cardiac diseases, and treatment. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar26. FENOGLIOMCALLISTERDECASTRODAVIACHEITLIN JHCJM. Congenital bicuspid aortic valve after age 20. Am J Cardiol. 1977;39:164-9. Age-related pathologic analysis of the frequency of aortic stenosis and insufficiency in patients with bicuspid aortic valves. The frequency of stenosis increased with patient age, but not all bicuspid valves become stenotic or insufficient. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar27. LIEPPEBEHAMSCALLIONKISSLO WVRJ. Detection of tricuspid regurgitation and two-dimensional echocardiography and peripheral vein injections. Circulation. 1978;57:128-32. Diagnosing tricuspid regurgitation by indirect techniques is discussed with high sensitivity and specificity. This method should be especially helpful in diagnosing tricuspid regurgitation secondary to endocarditis. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar28. MEISTERENGELFEITOSAHELFANTFRANKL STGRW. Propranolol in mitral stenosis during sinus rhythm. Am Heart J. 1977;94:685-8. Hemodynamic study reporting the usefulness of propanolol in treating patients with mitral stenosis in sinus rhythm. Symptoms decreased and hemodynamics improved due to reduction of heart rate and increase in diastolic time for flow to occur across the stenotic mitral valve. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar29. MILLERVISMARADEMARIASALELMASON RLAAD. Afterload reduction therapy with nitroprusside in severe aortic regurgitation: improved cardiac performance and reduced regurgitant volume. Am J Cardiol. 1976;38:564-7. Hemodynamic study in patients with severe aortic regurgitation showing improvement with afterload and preload reduction with nitroprusside, which resulted in a decreased regurgitant volume. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar30. MILLSROSEHOLLINGSWORTHAMARACRAIGE PJJIE. Long-term prognosis of mitral-valve prolapse. N Engl J Med. 1977;297:13-8. The natural history of 53 patients with prolapse is reported over a span averaging 13.7 years. Complications included sudden death, endocarditis, and progressive regurgitation in eight patients (15%). CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar31. PAQUAYANDERSONDIEFENTHALNORDSTROMRICHMANGOBEL PGHLHF. Chest pain as a predictor of coronary artery disease in patients with obstructive aortic valve disease. Am J Cardiol. 1976;38:863-9. Evaluation of patients with severe aortic valve disease showed that patients without chest pain were unlikely to have coronary disease. In those with chest pain, the more typical the pain pattern for angina, the more likely the presence of coronary artery disease. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar32. SMITHNEUTZEROCHEAGNEWBARRATT-BOYES HJATB. The natural history of rheumatic aortic regurgitation and the indications for surgery. Br H J. 1976;38:147-54. Extensive review of clinical and hemodynamic factors associated with severe aortic regurgitation that are related to poor medical prognoses, indications for surgery, higher rate of surgical complications, and poor prognoses after surgery. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar33. SWARTZTEICHHOLZDONOSO MLF. Mitral valve prolapse: a review of associated arrhythmias. Am J Med. 1977;62:377-89. Extensive review of the incidence, type, and mechanism of arrhythmias; symptoms; and sudden death in patients with mitral valve prolapse. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar34. FREEDROCCHINIROSENTHALNADASCASTANEDA MAAAA. Exercise-induced hypertension after surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta. Am J Cardiol. 1979;43:253-8. Postoperative exercise studies showed that patients normotensive at rest may become significantly hypertensive with exercise. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar35. SONDHEIMERIZUKAWAOLLEYTRUSLERMUSTARD HTPGW. Conduction disturbances after total correction of tetralogy of Fallot. Am Heart J. 1976;92:278-82. Experience of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, with tetralogy of Fallot conduction abnormalities. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar36. GLANZHELLENBRANDBERMANTALNER SWMN. Echocardiographic assessment of the severity of aortic stenosis in children and adolescents. Am J Cardiol. 1976;38:620-5. Use of echocardiography for predicting left ventricular pressure in children. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar37. GOLDSTEINNAGARSRIVASTAVASCHACHTFERRISFLOWERS DCNRFN. Clinically silent pericardial effusions in patients on long-term hemodialysis: pericardial effusions in hemodialysis. Chest. 1977;72:744-7. This study assesses the risk of cardiac tamponade in patients with "silent" pericardial effusions detectable clinically only by echocardiograpy and suggests that such patients (who may account for as many as 25% of all long-term hemodialysis patients) are at low risk of developing pericardial tamponade. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar38. KLACSMANNBULKLEYHUTCHINS PBG. The changed spectrum of purulent pericarditis: an 86 year autopsy experience in 200 patients. Am J Med. 1977;63:666-73. Review of 55 autopsied patients with purulent pericarditis describing clinical and pathologic features of this frequently fatal disease and examining how the clinical features have changed in recent years. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar39. SHABETAI R. The pericardium: an essay on some recent developments. Am J Cardiol. 1978;42:1036-43. Concise, up-to-date review of the pericardium exploring the role of the normal pericardium, the hemodynamics of cardiac tamponade, and the diseases that typically involve the pericardial sac. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar40. BULKLEY B. Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis afflicted: idols of the cave and the marketplace. Am J Cardiol. 1977;40:476-9. An editorial that reviews the historical development of our understanding of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and explores areas of certainty and uncertainty in our present day knowledge of this condition. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar41. CHATTERJEEPARMLEY KW. The role of vasodilator therapy in heart failure. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 1977;19:301-25. Thorough review of vasodilator therapy in the management of acute and chronic congestive heart failure of diverse cause. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar42. CHEWZIADYRAPHAELNELLENOAKLEY CGMMC. Primary restrictive cardiomyopathy: non-tropical endomyocardial fibrosis and hypereosinophilic heart disease. Br Heart J. 1977;39:399-413. A study of 11 patients with primary restrictive cardiomyopathy reviewing current understanding of this disease entity, including clinical presentation, hemodynamics, and probable causes. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar43. MINOWBENJAMINLEEGOTTLIEB RREJ. Adriamycin cardiomyopathy-risk factors. Cancer. 1977;39:1397-402. Study of the clinical features of patients treated with doxorubicin (Adriamycin) who developed congestive heart failure, with specific emphasis on risk factors that may potentiate the development of this complication. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar44. SHAHSYLVESTER PL. Echocardiography in the diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Am J Med. 1977;62:830-5. Review of the echocardiography features of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar45. VON HOFFROZENCWEIGLAYARDSLAVIKMUGGIA DMMMF. Daunomycin-induced cardiotoxicity in children and adults: a review of 110 cases. Am J Med. 1977;62:200-8. Review of daunomycin-induced cardiomyopathy in a relatively large group of patients, with useful data on clinical presentation and dose-response curves for both adults and children. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar46. . Prevention of bacterial endocarditis. Circulation. 1977;56:139A-43A. New recommendations for prophylaxsis against endocarditis. MedlineGoogle Scholar47. GERSONYHAYES WC. Bacterial endocarditis in patients with pulmonary stenosis, aortic stenosis, or ventricular septal defect. Circulation. 1977;56(suppl):I-84-7. Reports a natural history study in patients with various congenital heart lesions and relates the incidence of endocarditis and related mortality to the specific congenital heart lesion. Google Scholar48. STINSONGRIEPPVOSTICOPELANDSHUMWAY ERKJN. Operative treatment of active endocarditis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1976;71:659-65. Forty-four patients with active endocarditis underwent valve replacement before completion of antibiotic therapy. Operative mortality rates were 30% in patients with primary disease and 24% in patients with prosthetic valves, with 5-year survival rates of 68% and 54%, respectively. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar49. THOMSONNANDAGRAMIAK KNR. The reliability of echocardiography in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Radiology. 1977;125:473-6. Results of echocardiograms in proven cases of infectious endocarditis were positive in 11 of 20 cases of infected valves; for eight valves results were false-negative and for one, false-positive. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar50. WATANAKUNAKORNBAIRD CI. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis associated with a removable infected intravenous device. Am J Med. 1977;63:253-6. Report of 21 patients with endocarditis related to infected intravenous catheters. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar51. BELLSIMONDEMETS WTD. The clinical features of submassive and massive pulmonary emboli. Am J Med. 1977;62:355-60. An analysis of clinical features of 167 patients with angiographically proven pulmonary emboli, derived from the National Cooperative Study, provides useful information on clinical predictors of this acute event. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar52. DALENHAFFAJEEALBERTHOWEOCKENEPARASKOS JCJJIJ. Pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hemorrhage and pulmonary infarction. N Engl J Med. 1977;296:1431-5. Study focusing on factors that lead to the development of pulmonary infarction in patients with pulmonary embolism. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar53. EDWARDSEDWARDS WJ. Clinical primary pulmonary hypertension: three pathologic types. Circulation. 1977;56:884-8. Review of three distinct pathologic forms of clinical primary pulmonary hypertension including plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy, recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism, and pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar54. 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The association of severe pulmonary hypertension with the generally believed benign variant of progressive systemic sclerosis, the CREST syndrome, is described with useful clinical and pathologic information relevant to this condition. LinkGoogle Scholar57. FEIGENBAUM H. Assessment of echocardiography in clinical practice. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 1978;20:329-36. Focuses on the sensitivity and specificity of echocardiography for specific diagnostic entities, separating quantitative from qualitative power of the tool. Brief sections on establishing an echocardiography laboratory and on the newer techniques of two-dimensional echocardiography are included. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar58. HENRYMORGANROTHPEARLMANCLARKREDWOODITSCOITZEPSTEIN WJACDSS. Relation between echocardiographically determined left atrial size and atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 1976;53:273-9. 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Electrophysiological studies with multiple drugs in patients with atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardias utilizing an extranodal pathway. Circulation. 1977;56:727-36. This study shows the efficacy of electrophysiologic testing to establish chronic oral drug regimens for patients with recurrent supraventricular tachycardias using atrioventricular bypass tracts. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar77. WYNDHAMAMAT-Y-LEONWU CFD. Effects of cycle length on atrial vulnerability. Circulation. 1977;55:260-7. This study shows that vulnerability to atrial flutter or fibrillation is increased at rapider rates, suggesting that chronic overdrive atrial pacing to prevent atrial flutter or fibrillation might paradoxically potentiate these arrhythmias. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar78. APPLEBAUMKARPKIRKLIN ARJ. Ascending descending aortic dissections. Ann Surg. 1976;183:296-300. Report of surgical indications and results of surgery in dissecting aortic aneurysms. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar79. 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